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A career bank robber, Jack Foley, and a U.S. Marshal, Karen Sisco, are forced to share a car trunk during Foley's escape from a Florida prison. After he completes his getaway, Foley is chased by Sisco while he and his friends—right-hand man Buddy and unreliable associate Glenn—work their way north to Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy northern suburb of Detroit. There they plan to pay a visit to shady businessman Ripley, who foolishly bragged to them in prison years before about a cache of uncut diamonds hidden in his home.

A vicious criminal named Maurice Miller, who also spent time in jail with Jack and Ripley, is planning on hitting up Ripley's mansion with his own crew, including Kenneth and White Boy Bob. A romantic interlude between Foley and Sisco takes place in a Detroit hotel, but the question of whether she is really pursuing Foley to arrest him or for love ends in a showdown during the robbery at Ripley's home and adds to "the fun" Foley claims they are having.

The source novel's origins lie in a picture Leonard saw in the Detroit News of a beautiful young female federal marshal standing in front of a Miami courthouse with a shotgun resting on her hip. Producer Danny DeVito bought the rights to the book after his success with the 1995 film adaptation of Leonard's novel Get Shorty. Steven Soderbergh had made two films for Universal Pictures when executive Casey Silver offered him Out of Sight with George Clooney attached. However, the filmmaker was close to making another project and hesitated to commit. Silver told him, "These things aren't going to line up very often, you should pay attention".[3]

Sandra Bullock was originally considered to play Karen Sisco opposite Clooney. According to Soderbergh, "What happened was I spent some time with [Clooney and Bullock] and they actually did have a great chemistry, but it was for the wrong movie. They really should do a movie together, but it was not Elmore Leonard energy."[4]

Danny DeVito and Garry Shandling were considered for the part of Ripley before Albert Brooks was cast. The character of Foley appealed to Clooney, who as a boy had considered as heroes the bank robbers in movies, citing "the Cagneys and the Bogarts, Steve McQueen and all those guys, the guys who were kind of bad and you still rooted for them. And when I read this, I thought, 'This guy is robbing a bank but you really want him to get away with it.'"[5]

Soderbergh cites Nicolas Roeg's 1973 film Don't Look Now as the primary influence on how he approached the love scene between Foley and Sisco: "What I wanted to create in our movie was the intimacy of that, the juxtaposition of these two contrasting things ... We had to mix it up and have you feel like you were more in their heads."[4]

The character Ray Nicolette also appears in Leonard's novel Rum Punch, which was being filmed as Jackie Brown when Universal Pictures was preparing to begin production on Out of Sight, after Michael Keaton was cast as the detective Nicolette in Jackie Brown, Universal subsequently cast him for a cameo in the same role in Out of Sight. While Miramax Films owned the rights to the character, due to the fact that Jackie Brown went into production first, director Quentin Tarantino felt it was imperative that Miramax not charge Universal for using the character, allowing the character's appearance without Miramax receiving financial compensation. Nicolette appears in only one brief scene, whereas the character was a much more substantial element of Jackie Brown.

Out of Sight was released on June 26, 1998, in 2,106 theaters and grossed USD $12 million on its opening weekend. It went on to gross $37.5 million domestically and $40.2 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $77.7 million.[2]

Out of Sight received critical acclaim. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 93% approval rating, based on 88 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Steven Soderbergh's intelligently crafted adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel is witty, sexy, surprisingly entertaining, and a star-making turn for George Clooney."[7] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 85 out of 100, based on 30 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim."[8]

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half out of four stars and praised Clooney's performance, stating: "Clooney has never been better. A lot of actors who are handsome when young need to put on some miles before the full flavor emerges ... Here Clooney at last looks like a big screen star; the good-looking leading man from television is over with".[9]Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised Lopez's performance, writing, "Ms. Lopez has her best movie role thus far, and she brings it both seductiveness and grit; if it was hard to imagine a hard-working, pistol-packing bombshell on the page, it couldn't be easier here".[10]Andrew Sarris, in his review for The New York Observer, wrote, "For once in a mainstream production, the narrative machinery works on all cylinders without any wasted motion or fatuous rhetoric. They don't make movies like this anymore, in this overcalculated and overtested era";[11] in his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, "As always with the best of Leonard, it's the journey, not the destination, that counts, and director Soderbergh has let it unfold with dry wit and great skill. Making adroit use of complex flashbacks, freeze frames and other stylistic flourishes, he's managed to put his personal stamp on the film while staying faithful to the irreplaceable spirit of the original".[12]

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B+" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "This is Clooney’s wiliest, most complex star turn yet. It helps that he’s lost the Beverly Hills Caesar cut (he’s actually more handsome with his hair swept back), and his performance is slyly two-tiered: Foley is all charming moxie on the surface, a bit clueless underneath".[13]Richard Schickel, in his review for Time, wrote, "What makes this movie work is the kind of cool that made Get Shorty go so nicely: an understanding that life's little adventures rarely come in neat three-act packages, the way most movies now do, and the unruffled presentation of outrageously twisted dialogue, characters and situations as if they were the most natural things in the world".[14] In her review for the L.A. Weekly, Manohla Dargis wrote, "This isn't a profound film, or even an important one, but then it isn't trying to be; it's so diverting and so full of small, satisfying pleasures, you don't realize how good it is until after it's over".[15]

In later years, Soderbergh would see the film as "a very conscious decision on my part to try and climb my way out of the arthouse ghetto which can be as much of a trap as making blockbuster films", he had just turned down directing Human Nature, written by Charlie Kaufman, to direct Out of Sight. "And I was very aware that at that point in my career, half the business was off limits to me".[20] Clooney said, "Out of Sight was the first time where I had a say, and it was the first good screenplay that I'd read where I just went, 'That's it.' And even though it didn't do really well box office-wise - we sort of tanked again - it was a really good film".[20]

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Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. Film critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the poster boy of the Sundance generation, Soderbergh also directed, photographed and edited all episodes of the television drama The Knick. In addition, he has produced film and television programs. Soderbergh was born on January 14,1963, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Mary Ann and Peter Andrew Soderbergh and his fathers ancestry was Swedish and Irish, his paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Stockholm. His mother was of Italian, and a little Irish, descent, in Baton Rouge, he discovered filmmaking as a teenager, directing short Super 8 mm films with equipment borrowed from LSU students. His primary high school education was at Louisiana State University Laboratory School, while still taking classes there around the age of 15, Soderbergh enrolled in the universitys film animation class and began making short 16 mm films with secondhand equipment. His big break came when he directed the Grammy-nominated concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 1985 and it was not until Soderbergh came back to Baton Rouge that he conceived the idea for Sex, Lies, and Videotape, which he wrote in eight days. The independent film won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, became a commercial success. At age 26, Soderbergh became the second youngest director to win the top award. Movie critic Roger Ebert dubbed Soderbergh the poster boy of the Sundance generation and he also directed the Spalding Gray monologue film Grays Anatomy in 1996. The film was praised, though only a moderate box-office success. It reaffirmed Soderberghs potential, sparking the beginnings of an artistic partnership between Clooney and Soderbergh. Soderbergh followed up on the success of Out of Sight by making another crime caper, The Limey, from a screenplay by Lem Dobbs and starring veteran actors Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda. The film was well-received, but not as much as Erin Brockovich, written by Susannah Grant, later that year, Soderbergh released Traffic, a social drama written by Stephen Gaghan and featuring an ensemble cast. Traffic became his most acclaimed movie since Sex, Lies, and Videotape and he was also nominated that same year for Erin Brockovich. He is the director to have been nominated in the same year for Best Director for two different films by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the Directors Guild of America. The double nomination was the first in 60 years, the films star, George Clooney, subsequently appeared in Solaris, marking the third time the two have headlined a film. A film within a film, the title is a film reference to an actor or actress appearing fully nude

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Danny DeVito
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Daniel Michael Danny DeVito, Jr. is an American actor, comedian, director and producer. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in Taxi which won him a Golden Globe, confidential and for his voiceover in such films as Space Jam, Hercules and The Lorax. DeVito and Michael Shamberg founded Jersey Films, soon afterwards, Stacey Sher became an equal partner. The production company is known for such as Pulp Fiction, Garden State. DeVito also owns Jersey Television, which produced the Comedy Central series Reno 911, DeVito and wife Rhea Perlman starred together in his 1996 film Matilda, based on Roald Dahls childrens novel. DeVito was also one of the producers nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for Erin Brockovich and he currently stars as Frank Reynolds on the FX and FXX sitcom Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He directs, produces and appears in graphic, short, horror films for his Internet venture The Blood Factory, deVitos short stature is the result of multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, a rare genetic disorder that affects bone growth in those afflicted. DeVito was born in Neptune Township, New Jersey, the son of Daniel DeVito, Sr. a small business owner and he grew up in a family of five, with his parents and two older sisters. He is of Italian descent, his family is originally from San Fele and he was raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey. DeVito was raised as a Catholic and attended Oratory Preparatory School and he went to the boarding school when he was 14 after he persuaded his father to send him there to keep him out of trouble. After leaving the school, he trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. DeVito played Martini in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and he gained fame in 1978 playing Louie De Palma, the short but domineering dispatcher for the fictional Sunshine Cab Company, on the hit TV show Taxi. Two years later, DeVito reunited with Douglas and Turner in The War of the Roses, DeVito has an interest in documentaries, In 2006, he began a partnership with Morgan Freemans company ClickStar, on which he hosts a documentary channel called Jersey Docs. He was also interviewed in the documentary Revenge of the Electric Car, about his interest in, in April 2012, DeVito made his West End acting debut in a revival of the Neil Simon play The Sunshine Boys as Willie Clark - alongside Richard Griffiths. The play previewed at the Savoy Theatre in London from 27 April 2012, opened on 17 May, DeVito is currently making his Broadway debut in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival of the Arthur Miller play The Price as Gregory Solomon. The production began performances at the American Airlines Theatre on February 16,2017 and is set to open on March 16 for a limited run through May 7. DeVito has become a film and television producer. Through Jersey Films, he has produced films, including Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Erin Brockovich, Gattaca

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Barry Sonnenfeld
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Barry Sonnenfeld is an American filmmaker and television director. Sonnenfeld has also had four collaborations with Will Smith, Sonnenfeld was born and raised in New York City, the son of Irene Kelly, an art teacher, and Sonny Sonnenfeld, a lighting salesman, educator, and architectural lighting designer. He was raised in a Jewish family, after he received his bachelors degree from Hampshire College, he graduated from New York University of Film School in 1978. He began working on films, before starting work as director of photography on the Oscar-nominated In Our Water. Then Joel Coen and Ethan Coen hired him for Blood Simple and this film began his collaboration with the Coen brothers, who used him for their next two pictures, Raising Arizona and Millers Crossing. He also worked with Danny DeVito on Throw Momma from the Train and Rob Reiner on When Harry Met Sally, Sonnenfeld gained his first work as a director from Paramount Pictures on The Addams Family, a box-office success released in November 1991. Its sequel, Addams Family Values, was not as successful at the box office, produced by Jersey Films and based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, the film won a Golden Globe for John Travolta. The film was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. Following Tim Burton and the Coen Brothers, Sonnenfeld would tell stories about unusual, unorthodox people who are into the unexpected and he would use as his trademarks unusual camera angles, offbeat dialogue, and in certain films, strange behavior and weird creatures. In 1996, Steven Spielberg asked him to direct Men in Black, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, the film was a critical and financial smash. Producer Jon Peters then asked Sonnenfeld to direct Wild Wild West, Wild Wild West was an expensive disappointment. He also directed the comedy Big Trouble, after which he made his most successful film sequel and he is also a contributing editor for Esquire. He also co-produced the 2007 film Enchanted for Disney that starred Amy Adams, in 2008, Sonnenfeld earned an Emmy for directing Pushing Daisies. On April 21,2010, it was announced that Sonnenfeld intended to return for Men in Black 3, the film, released in 2012 worldwide, received good reviews and became the highest grossing in the series. He lives in New York City with his wife Susan and their daughter Chloe, cinematography Misery, cinematography Millers Crossing, cinematography The Addams Family, Passenger in Gomez train, director Addams Family Values, Mr. The project mostly is based on the experiences of Esquire writer David Katz. The show is about a man working at a magazine who is reluctant to embrace adulthood. Al Higgins is set to serve as showrunner/head writer if the project is picked up and he has become attached to a movie adaptation of The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz, about a family of private investigators

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Elmore Leonard
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Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, among his best-known works are Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Swag, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk, and Rum Punch. Leonards writings include short stories became the films 3,10 to Yuma and The Tall T. Leonard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Flora Amelia and Elmore John Leonard, because his father worked as a site locator for General Motors, the family moved frequently for several years. In 1934, the family settled in Detroit, enrolling at the University of Detroit in 1946, he pursued writing more seriously, entering his work in short story contests and sending it off to magazines. He graduated in 1950 with a degree in English and philosophy. A year before he graduated, he got a job as a writer with Campbell-Ewald Advertising Agency. Leonard got his first break in the market during the 1950s. Leonard had his first success in 1951 when Argosy published the short story Trail of the Apaches, during the 1950s and early 1960s, he continued writing Westerns, publishing more than 30 short stories. He wrote his first novel, The Bounty Hunters, in 1953, five of his westerns were turned into major movies before 1972, The Tall T,3,10 to Yuma, Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and Joe Kidd. He went on to write seventeen novels and stories in the mystery, crime, in 1985, his breakout novel, Glitz was published. At the time of his death he had tens of millions of copies of his novels. Among his later movies are Jackie Brown which is a homage to the author’s trademark rhythm and pace, Get Shorty and he married Beverly Clare Cline in 1949, and they had five children together—three daughters and two sons—before divorcing in 1977. His second marriage in 1979, to Joan Leanne Lancaster, ended with her death in 1993, later that same year, he married Christine Kent, and they divorced in 2012. Leonard spent the last years of his life with his family in Oakland County and he suffered a stroke on July 29,2013. Initial reports stated that Leonard was recovering, but on August 20,2013, Leonard is survived by his five children,13 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Commended by critics for his gritty realism and strong dialogue, Leonard sometimes took liberties with grammar in the interest of speeding the story along. In his essay Elmore Leonards Ten Rules of Writing he said, My most important rule is one that sums up the 10, If it sounds like writing and he also hinted, I try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip

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George Clooney
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George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana and the other for co-producing Argo, in 1999, he took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooneys fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy remake Oceans Eleven, in 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo. He is the person who has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. In 2009, Clooney was included in Times annual Time 100 as one of the Most Influential People in the World and he is also noted for his political activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31,2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce, was a beauty queen and city councilwoman and his father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman and game show host who hosted AMC for five years in the late 1990s. Clooney has Irish, German, and English ancestry and his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln. Clooney has a sister named Adelia. His aunt was the cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney. Through Rosemary, his cousins include actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic, but said in 2006 that he does not know if he believes in Heaven, or even God. He has said, Yes, we were Catholic, big time, whole family and he began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michaels School in Columbus, Ohio, then Western Row Elementary School in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974, and St. Susanna School in Mason, the Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through the seventh grade. In middle school, Clooney developed Bells palsy, a condition that partially paralyzes the face, the malady went away within a year. In an interview with Larry King, he stated that yes and it takes about nine months to go away. It was the first year of school, which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed. After his parents moved to Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School and he has stated that he earned all As and a B in school, and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player. He tried out to professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977

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Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lynn Lopez, also known as JLo, is an American singer, actress, dancer, fashion designer, author, and producer. Lopez gained her first high-profile job as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color in 1991 and she received her first leading role in the Selena biopic of the same name in 1997, a portrayal that earned her a Golden Globe nomination. For her role in Out of Sight the following year, Lopez became the first Latina actress to earn over US$1 million for a film. She ventured into the industry in 1999 with her debut studio album On the 6. With the simultaneous release of her studio album J. Lo and her film The Wedding Planner in 2001, Lopez became the first woman to have a number one album. Her 2002 remix album, J to tha L–O, the Remixes, became the first in history to debut at number one on the U. S. Billboard 200. Following her second divorce, Lopez had a relationship with Ben Affleck. Then, while also overshadowing the release of Gigli, a critical and commercial failure and she subsequently married longtime friend Marc Anthony, and rebounded with the box office successes Shall We Dance. and Monster-in-Law. Her fifth studio album, Como Ama una Mujer, received the highest first-week sales for a debut Spanish album in the United States, in 2016, she began starring as Harlee Santos in the crime drama series Shades of Blue. Time listed her as one of the 25 most influential Hispanic Americans, for her contributions to the arts, Lopez has received a landmark star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Billboard Icon Award, among other honors. Beyond entertainment, she enjoys a successful business career consisting of various clothing lines, accessories, fragrances, a company. Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24,1969, in the Castle Hill neighborhood of The Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez and she has an older sister, Leslie, and a younger sister, Lynda, a journalist. David worked the night shift at the Guardian Insurance Company before becoming a technician at the firm. When Lopez was born, the family was living in a small apartment, a few years later, her parents had saved up enough money to be able to purchase a two-story house, which was considered a big deal for the relatively poor family. At the age of five, Lopez began taking singing and dancing lessons and she toured New York with her school when she was seven years old. Her parents stressed the importance of work ethic and being able to speak English and they encouraged their three daughters to put on performances at home—singing and dancing in front of each other and their friends so that they would stay out of trouble. Lopez spent her academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at Preston High School. In school, Lopez did gymnastics, ran track on a national level and she excelled athletically rather than academically, competing in national track championships

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Ving Rhames
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Rhames was born in Harlem, New York City, New York, the son of Reather, a homemaker, and Ernest Rhames, an auto mechanic. His parents were raised as sharecroppers in South Carolina, named after the late NBC journalist, Irving R. Levine, Irving Rhames also grew up in Harlem. He entered New Yorks High School of Performing Arts, where he discovered his love of acting, after high school, he studied drama at SUNY Purchase, where fellow acting student Stanley Tucci gave him his nickname Ving. Rhames later transferred to the Juilliard Schools Drama Division where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1983, Rhames first appeared on Broadway in the play The Boys of Winter in 1984. Rhames played Dr. Peter Bentons brother-in-law on the TV medical drama ER and he played ace computer hacker Luther Stickell opposite Tom Cruise in Brian De Palmas Mission, Impossible. In 1997 Rhames portrayed the character of Nathan Diamond Dog Jones in the popular film Con Air, Rhames won a Golden Globe in 1998 for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film in HBOs Don King, Only in America. At the ceremony Rhames gave his award to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon, saying, I feel that being an artist is about giving, Lemmon was clearly touched by the gesture as was the celebrity audience who gave Lemmon a standing ovation. Lemmon, who tried unsuccessfully to give the back to Rhames. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced later that they would have a duplicate award prepared for Rhames and that moment was #98 on E. s 101 Awesome Moments in Entertainment. The New York Times lauded Rhames for the act, writing that in doing so he demonstrated his capacity for abundant generosity, Rhames appeared in Striptease as the wisecracking bodyguard Shad, Bringing Out the Dead, then reprised his Luther Stickell role for Mission, Impossible II. Rhames has also appeared in a series of commercials for RadioShack. In March 2005, Rhames played the role on a new Kojak series. The bald head, lollipops, and Who loves ya, baby, catchphrase remained intact, but little else remained from the Savalas original. Rhames voiced the part of Tobias Jones in the computer game Driver 3. Rhames reprised his role in Mission, Impossible III, had an appearance in Mission, Impossible – Ghost Protocol. He is the only actor besides Tom Cruise to appear in all five Mission, Impossible films. It was announced that he would have a role in the Aquaman-based show Mercy Reef, however due to the integration of The WB and UPN for the new network, CW, Mercy Reef was not picked up. Rhames played a homosexual, possibly also homicidal, firefighter who comes out of the closet in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and he narrates the BET television series American Gangster

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Don Cheadle
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Donald Frank Don Cheadle Jr. is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. He had a role in Hamburger Hill, before building his career in the 1990s with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, Rosewood. He started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the films Out of Sight, Traffic and Oceans Eleven. Other films include Volcano, The Rat Pack, Things Behind the Sun, Swordfish, Crash, Oceans Twelve, Oceans Thirteen, Reign Over Me, Talk to Me, Traitor and The Guard. Cheadle co-wrote, directed and starred in Miles Ahead, based on the life of jazz musician Miles Davis. He plays the superhero Colonel James Rhodey Rhodes / War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has appeared in Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Avengers, Age of Ultron and Captain America, Civil War. He stars as Marty Kaan on the Showtime sitcom House of Lies, for which he most recently won a Golden Globe Award in 2013. Cheadle has campaigned to end the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and co-authored, with John Prendergast, in 2010, Cheadle was named U. N. Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Bettye, a teacher and he has a sister, Cindy, and a brother, Colin. His family moved from city to city throughout his childhood, after he graduated from East, Cheadle went on to California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in Acting. Cheadle first became eligible for his Screen Actors Guild card when he appeared as a burger joint employee in the 1985 comedy Moving Violations. He then appeared in Hamburger Hill in 1987, and played the role of Jack in the April 1,1988 Jung, although his character was supposed to be 16 years old, Cheadle was 23 at the time. Cheadle then played the role of Rocket in the 1988 movie Colors, in 1989, he appeared in a video for Angela Winbushs No.2 hit single Its the Real Thing, performing dance moves in an orange jump suit, working at a car wash. In 1990, he appeared in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air titled Homeboy, Sweet Homeboy, playing Will Smiths friend and Hilarys first love interest, in 1992, he played a supporting role in The Golden Girls spin-off The Golden Palace. Cheadle subsequently played district attorney John Littleton on three seasons of Picket Fences, following soon thereafter was his performance in the title role of the 1996 HBO TV movie Rebound, The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault. He also starred in the 1997 film Volcano, directed by Mick Jackson, Cheadles television credits include Emmy-nominated performances in the movies The Rat Pack, A Lesson Before Dying, Things Behind the Sun and in a guest appearance on ER. The last of these four episodes during the shows ninth season, in which he portrayed Paul Nathan. He has made appearances in films including Rosewood, The Family Man, Boogie Nights, an appearance in the film Abby Singer, Out of Sight, Traffic

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Dennis Farina
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Dennis Farina was an Italian-American actor of film and television and former Chicago police officer. He was an actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer. His most known roles are those of mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and he also hosted and narrated a revived version of Unsolved Mysteries. His last major role was in HBOs Luck, which premiered on January 29,2012. Farina was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Sicilian-American parents Joseph Farina, a doctor and his father was from Villalba, Sicily. He had three brothers and three sisters, before becoming an actor, Farina served three years in the United States Army, followed by 18 years in the Chicago Police Departments burglary division, from 1967 to 1985. Farina began working for director Michael Mann as a police consultant, Farina moonlighted as an actor in Chicago-based films and theater before Mann chose him for his Crime Story series, which aired on NBC from 1986-88. Farina played mobster Albert Lombard in Manns previous hit television show and he later starred as the title character in Buddy Faro, a 1998 private-detective series on CBS. Two of his movie characters are Jimmy Serrano, the mob boss from Midnight Run, and Ray Bones Barboni. Farina also played FBI Agent Jack Crawford in the first Hannibal Lecter crime film and he played a baseball manager in Little Big League and a basketball coach in Eddie. In a leading-man role and a departure from his parts, Farina co-starred with Bette Midler in a romantic comedy, That Old Feeling. In 1998s Saving Private Ryan, Farina plays a role as the battalion commander who advises Captain John Miller of the mission which forms the basis of the films plot. Farina had a flair for comedy and he won an American Comedy Award for his performance in Get Shorty and starred in a television sitcom, In-Laws, from 2002 until 2003. He appeared in 2002s Stealing Harvard, a comedy in which he played a tough-talking and he also had a comic role opposite Ed Harris and Helen Hunt in the HBO production of Empire Falls in 2005 and opposite Alan Rickman in 2008s Bottle Shock. His distinctive voice was put to use in early 2005, when Farina provided the voice of aging boxer-turned-superhero Wildcat on Justice League Unlimited, in 2004, the producers of the television series Law & Order hired Farina as Det. Joe Fontana, following the departure of longtime cast member Jerry Orbach, Farina stayed on the show for two seasons, but his character was not as popular as Orbachs Det. His role of Detective Lt. Mike Torello on Crime Story was as a Chicago police officer, farinas Law & Order character, Detective Fontana, worked for Chicago Homicide before his transfer to the NYPD

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Albert Brooks
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Albert Lawrence Brooks is an American actor, filmmaker, author and comedian. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1987s Broadcast News and his voice acting credits include Marlin in Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, and recurring guest voices for The Simpsons, including Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie. His half-brother was Charles Einstein, a writer for television programs as Playhouse 90. Brooks is Jewish, his grandparents emigrated from Austria and Russia and he grew up among show business families in southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School with Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner. Brooks attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, but dropped out one year to focus on his comedy career. By the age of 19, he had changed his name to Albert Brooks. He began a career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s. Brooks led a new generation of self-reflective baby-boomer comics appearing on NBCs The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, after two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One and the Grammy Award–nominated A Star Is Bought, Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker. The role reflected Brookss decision to move to Los Angeles to enter the film business, Brooks directed his first feature film, Real Life, in 1979. The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBSs An American Family documentary. It has also been viewed as foretelling the future emergence of reality television, Brooks also made a cameo appearance in the film Private Benjamin, starring Goldie Hawn. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks co-wrote, directed and starred in a series of well-received comedies, playing variants on his standard neurotic and these include 1981s Modern Romance, where Brooks played a film editor desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend. Brookss Defending Your Life placed his lead character in the afterlife, put on trial to justify his human fears, critics responded to the offbeat premise and the chemistry between Brooks and Meryl Streep, as his post-death love interest. His later efforts did not find large audiences, but still retained Brookss touch as a filmmaker and he garnered positive reviews for Mother, which starred Brooks as a middle-aged writer moving back home to resolve tensions between himself and his mother. 1999s The Muse featured Brooks as a down-and-out Hollywood screenwriter using the services of a muse for inspiration. Brooks also acted in other writers and directors films during the 1980s and 1990s and he had a cameo in the opening scene of Twilight Zone, The Movie, playing a driver whose passenger has a shocking secret. He also won positive notices for his role in 1998s Out of Sight, playing an untrustworthy banker, Brooks received positive reviews for his portrayal of a dying retail store owner who befriends disillusioned teen Leelee Sobieski in My First Mister. Brooks continued his work in Pixars Finding Nemo, as the voice of Marlin, one of the films protagonists

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Universal Pictures
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Universal Pictures is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. The company was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley and its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Universal Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America and is one of Hollywoods Big Six studios. Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, one story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the days takings. Within weeks of his Chicago trip, Laemmle gave up dry goods to buy the first several nickelodeons, for Laemmle and other such entrepreneurs, the creation in 1908 of the Edison-backed Motion Picture Trust meant that exhibitors were expected to pay fees for Trust-produced films they showed. Soon, Laemmle and other disgruntled nickelodeon owners decided to avoid paying Edison by producing their own pictures, in June 1909, Laemmle started the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe Stern and Julius Stern. Laemmle broke with Edisons custom of refusing to give billing and screen credits to performers, by naming the movie stars, he attracted many of the leading players of the time, contributing to the creation of the star system. In 1910, he promoted Florence Lawrence, formerly known as The Biograph Girl, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company was incorporated in New York on April 30,1912. Laemmle, who emerged as president in July 1912, was the figure in the partnership with Dintenfass, Baumann, Kessel, Powers, Swanson, Horsley. Eventually all would be out by Laemmle. Following the westward trend of the industry, by the end of 1912 the company was focusing its efforts in the Hollywood area. On March 15,1915, Laemmle opened the worlds largest motion picture production facility, Universal City Studios, studio management became the third facet of Universals operations, with the studio incorporated as a distinct subsidiary organization. Unlike other movie moguls, Laemmle opened his studio to tourists, Universal became the largest studio in Hollywood, and remained so for a decade. However, it sought an audience mostly in towns, producing mostly inexpensive melodramas, westerns. In its early years Universal released three brands of feature films — Red Feather, low-budget programmers, Bluebird, more ambitious productions, and Jewel, their prestige motion pictures. Directors included Jack Conway, John Ford, Rex Ingram, Robert Z. Leonard, George Marshall and Lois Weber, despite Laemmles role as an innovator, he was an extremely cautious studio chief. Unlike rivals Adolph Zukor, William Fox, and Marcus Loew and he also financed all of his own films, refusing to take on debt. Character actor Lon Chaney became a card for Universal in the 1920s

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Crime film
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Crime films are a genre of film that focus on crime. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, films dealing with crime and its detection are often based on plays rather than novels. Agatha Christies stage play Witness for the Prosecution was adapted for the big screen by director Billy Wilder in 1957, the film starred Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and is a classic example of a courtroom drama. In a courtroom drama, a charge is brought against one of the main characters, another major part is played by the lawyer representing the defendant in court and battling with the public prosecutor. He or she may enlist the services of an investigator to find out what really happened. However, in most cases it is not clear at all whether the accused is guilty of the crime or not—this is how suspense is created. Often, the private investigator storms into the courtroom at the very last minute in order to bring a new and this type of literature lends itself to the literary genre of drama focused more on dialogue and little or no necessity for a shift in scenery. The auditorium of the theatre becomes an extension of the courtroom, in Witness for the Prosecution, Leonard Vole, a young American living in England, is accused of murdering a middle-aged lady he met in the street while shopping. His wife hires the best lawyer available because she is convinced, or rather she knows, another classic courtroom drama is U. S. playwright Reginald Roses Twelve Angry Men, which is set in the jury deliberation room of a New York Court of Law. Eleven members of the jury, aiming at a verdict of guilty. The popularity of TV brought about the emergence of TV series featuring detectives, investigators, special agents, lawyers, in Britain, The Avengers about the adventures of gentleman agent John Steed and his partner, Emma Peel, achieved cult status. In Germany, Derrick became a household word, breaking Bad character Walter White is a methamphetamine drug manufacturer, this offered a different approach whereby the protagonist is the criminal instead of being the detective. Crime films may fall under several different subgenres and these include, Crime comedy - A hybrid of crime and comedy films. Mafia comedy looks at organized crime from a comical standpoint, humor comes from the incompetence of the criminals and/or black comedy. Examples include Analyze This, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, In Bruges, tower Heist and Pain & Gain. Crime drama - A combination of crime and dramatic films, examples include such films as Straight Time and Badlands. Crime thriller - A thriller in which the characters are involved in crime, either in its investigation, as the perpetrator or, less commonly. While some action films could be labelled as such for merely having criminality and thrills, the emphasis in this genre is the drama, examples include Untraceable, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Seven, Witness, Memories of Murder, The Call, and Running Scared

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Nancy Allen (actress)
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Nancy Anne Allen is an American actress and cancer activist best known for her roles in the films Carrie, RoboCop, and Dressed to Kill, the latter of which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. A pivotal supporting role in Carrie brought her recognition, and after marrying the director Brian De Palma, she appeared in several of his films, including Dressed to Kill and Blow Out. Her subsequent films include Strange Invaders, The Philadelphia Experiment, Poltergeist III, Limit Up, Out of Sight, Nancy Anne Allen was born on Saturday, June 24,1950, in New York City, the youngest of three children of Eugene and Florence Allen. Her father was a lieutenant in Yonkers, where she was raised. Allen was very shy as a child, so her mother enrolled her in dance classes when she was four and she attended the High School of Performing Arts, where she trained for a dancing career, and then attended Jose Quintanos School for Young Professionals. Allens first major role was very small, playing Nancy, Jack Nicholsons nervous date. This inspired her to move to Los Angeles and try for larger parts, Allen next appeared in the role of Pam Mitchell in Steven Spielbergs production of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, which was director Robert Zemeckiss first feature film. She then played Donna Stratton in another Spielberg film, the high-profile comedy 1941 opposite Tim Matheson, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and she married Brian De Palma on January 12,1979, and for the next few years appeared in his films. She starred as Kristina in Home Movies with Kirk Douglas, as Liz Blake in Dressed to Kill with Michael Caine, in filming the latter, she had to overcome a lifelong fear of being trapped in a submerged car filling with water. In 1983, Allen starred as supermarket tabloid reporter Betty Walker in Strange Invaders, written by Bill Condon and co-starring Paul LeMat and she and De Palma divorced in 1984. That same year, two of Allens films were released, The Buddy System opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon, for her role in the latter, Allen was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress. She also hosted the documentary Terror in the Aisles, which clips from various horror features, including Dressed to Kill. Paul Bartels Not for Publication and Sweet Revenge, an action caper about white slavery with Gina Gershon and Martin Landau, Allen played police officer Anne Lewis in the science fiction/action classic RoboCop opposite Peter Weller in the title role. The film, which was the Hollywood debut of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, Allen was nominated for another Saturn Award for Best Actress. Allen reprised her role as Officer Lewis in RoboCop 2 alongside Weller, to make her character tougher and more involved in the physical action, she studied martial arts and participated in police training. That same year, Allen top-lined Richard Martinis Limit Up, as commodities trader Casey Falls, Allen showcased her comedic abilities. The lighthearted romp also featured Danitra Vance and blues icon Ray Charles, in 1990, Allen also had the distinction of starring in the first ever original film made for the Lifetime television network, the highly rated Memories of Murder. She married comedian Craig Shoemaker on September 6,1992, Allen played Officer Lewis a third time in RoboCop 3 and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress

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Steve Zahn
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Steven James Steve Zahn is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for roles in films including, Reality Bites, forces of Nature, Joy Ride, Youve Got Mail, Riding in Cars with Boys, Saving Silverman, Daddy Day Care, National Security, Sahara, and A Perfect Getaway. Zahn was born in Marshall, Minnesota, the son of Zelda, who worked for the YMCA, and Carleton Edward Zahn and his father is of German and Swedish descent, and his mother is of German ancestry. Zahn spent part of his childhood in Mankato, Minnesota, attending Kennedy Elementary School, Zahns early roles were split between movies, touring companies of Broadway shows, and television shows. From 1992 to 1993, he toured as Hugo with the Barry Weissler production of Bye Bye Birdie with Tommy Tune, Ann Reinking, in October 1995, he played Phoebe Buffays husband Duncan on Friends The One With Phoebes Husband. Zahn appeared in films in the mid-1990s, including Tom Hanks That Thing You Do. Nora Ephrons Youve Got Mail, and Steven Soderberghs Out of Sight and these films garnered him enough respect that he was offered the starring role in the critically acclaimed indie film Happy, Texas. Some of Zahns most popular movies have been his later ones, including National Security, Daddy Day Care, Zahn received his most positive reviews for his performance in Riding in Cars with Boys, in which he co-starred with Drew Barrymore as her dim-witted, drug addicted husband. He also gave performances in Rescue Dawn and the television mini-series Comanche Moon. He also plays the character of Davis McAlary in HBOs Treme, Davis is a New Orleans native and local music lover, as well as one of Tremes biggest partiers, and advocates. Zahn also recorded a song for the show, and is featured on the shows soundtrack, the track, Shame, Shame, Shame, criticizes George W. Bush and the American governments response to the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the city of New Orleans. In 2014, he co-starred with Christian Slater in ABCs sitcom Mind Games, Zahn now makes his home in Lexington, Kentucky. And is a University of Kentucky sports fan, often seen at games, club Interview Steve Zahn at FEARnet

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Catherine Keener
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Catherine Ann Keener is an American actress. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Maxine Lund in Being John Malkovich. Keener also appeared in the films Into the Wild and Synecdoche, New York, Keener is also the noted muse of director Nicole Holofcener, having appeared in every work of hers to date. Keener was born in Miami, Florida in 1959, the third of five children of Evelyn and Jim Keener and she is of Irish descent on her fathers side and of Lebanese descent on her mothers. Keener was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools and she attended Monsignor Edward Pace High School. Keeners sister, Elizabeth Keener, is also an actress, Keener attended Wheaton College, in Norton, Massachusetts. Keener majored in English and history, enrolling in a theater course and her first theatrical production was the Wendy Wasserstein play Uncommon Women and Others, during her junior year at Wheaton. She graduated with her B. A. from Wheaton College in 1983, Keener had a supporting role as Lt. Cricket Sideris in the television series Ohara about an Asian-American detective. The series ran from January 1987 to May 1988 and her first film appearance was one line in About Last Night. She also guest-starred as an artist on an episode of Seinfeld called The Letter and she played Jerrys girlfriend, an artist who painted a famous portrait of Kramer. Keener then earned her first starring role in Johnny Suede with the then unknown Brad Pitt and her performance gained critical acclaim and earned her her first Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. She went on to work with director Tom Dicillo, again, in Living in Oblivion, two years later, she was once again nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Walking and Talking, an independent cult-comedy film directed by Nicole Holofcener. In 2000, Keener earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Being John Malkovich, in 2001, she worked with director Nicole Holofcener in Lovely and Amazing garnering her a third Independent Spirit Award nomination. In 2002, she co-starred with Edward Norton in the revival of Burn This. She also took part in the film Full Frontal, and Simone alongside Al Pacino. In 2005, she starred in the political thriller The Interpreter, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, with Daniel Day-Lewis, keeners performance as writer Harper Lee in Capote earned her several awards and nominations, including her second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2006, she starred in the film Friends with Money, in 2007, Keener played Jan Burres in Sean Penns critically acclaimed film Into the Wild, based on Jon Krakauers best-selling book of the same name. In 2008, her film An American Crime, the story of Gertrude Baniszewski

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Michael Keaton
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Michael John Douglas, known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor, producer, and director. In 2017, Keaton will play the role of Marvel Comics supervillian the Vulture in Spider-Man and he previously received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in Live from Baghdad and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for The Company. Keaton was awarded a Career Achievement Award from both the Hollywood Film Festival and Zurich Film Festivals, on January 18,2016, he was named Officer of Order of Arts and Letters in France. He is also a scholar at Carnegie Mellon University. Keaton, the youngest of seven children, was born in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania and his father, George A. Douglas, worked as a civil engineer and surveyor, and his mother, Leona Elizabeth, a homemaker, came from McKees Rocks. Keaton was raised in a Roman Catholic family and he is partly of Irish descent. He attended Montour High School in Pennsylvania, Keaton studied speech for two years at Kent State University, where he appeared in plays, before dropping out and returning to Pittsburgh. Keaton first appeared on TV in Pittsburgh public television programs, including Where the Heart Is and Mister Rogers Neighborhood and he also served as a full-time production assistant on the show. In 2004, following Fred Rogers death, Keaton hosted a PBS memorial tribute program, Fred Rogers, Keaton also worked as an actor in Pittsburgh theatre, he played the role of Rick in the Pittsburgh premiere of David Rabes Sticks and Bones with the Pittsburgh Poor Players. Keaton left Pittsburgh and moved to Los Angeles to begin auditioning for various TV parts and he popped up in various popular TV shows including Maude and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. He decided to use a name to satisfy SAG rules, as there were already an actor. The claim that Keaton selected his new surname due to an attraction to actress Diane Keaton is incorrect and he chose Keaton because of an affinity for the physical comedy of Buster Keaton. Keatons film debut came in a small non-speaking role in Joan Rivers film Rabbit Test and his role as the fast-talking schemer Bill Blaze Blazejowski earned Keaton some critical acclaim, and he scored leads in the subsequent comedy hits Mr. Mom, Johnny Dangerously and Gung Ho. He played the character in Tim Burtons 1988 horror-comedy Beetlejuice, earned Keaton widespread acclaim. He originally turned down the role, then reconsidered like most of the cast and he now considers Beetlejuice his favorite of his own films. That same year, he gave an acclaimed dramatic performance as a drug-addicted businessman in Clean. Keatons career was another major boost when he was again cast by Tim Burton. Warner Bros. received thousands of letters of complaint by fans who believed Keaton was the choice to portray Batman

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Quentin Tarantino
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Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American director, writer, and actor. His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed My Best Friends Birthday and its popularity was boosted by his second film, Pulp Fiction, a black comedy crime film that was a major success both among critics and audiences. Judged the greatest film from 1983–2008 by Entertainment Weekly, many critics, for his next effort, Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with Jackie Brown, an adaptation of the novel Rum Punch. Tarantino directed Death Proof as part of a feature with friend Robert Rodriguez. His long-postponed Inglourious Basterds, which tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germanys political leadership, was released in 2009 to positive reviews, after that came 2012s critically acclaimed Django Unchained, a Western film set in the antebellum era of the Deep South. It became the film of his career so far, making over $425 million at the box office. Tarantinos films have garnered critical and commercial success. He has received industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme dOr, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time in 2005, Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him the single most influential director of his generation. In December 2015, Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry, Tarantino was born on March 27,1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh and Tony Tarantino. His father is of Italian descent, and his mother has English and Irish ancestry, Quentin was named after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. Quentins mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles and she married him soon after, to gain independence from her parents, but the marriage did not last. Connie Tarantino left Los Angeles, and moved to Knoxville, where her parents lived, in 1966, Tarantinos mother, after finishing her nursing studies, moved back to Los Angeles with her then three-year-old son. They lived in the South Bay, in the part of the city. Tarantinos mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after coming to Los Angeles, and the moved to Torrance. Zastoupil encouraged his love of movies, and accompanied him to film screenings. Tarantinos mother allowed him to see movies with adult content, such as Carnal Knowledge, after his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1973, and received a misdiagnosis of Hodgkins lymphoma, Tarantino was sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee. He remained there for six months to a year, before returning to California

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Jackie Brown
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Jackie Brown is a 1997 American crime thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film, Tarantinos third feature-length production, is an adaptation of Elmore Leonards 1992 novel Rum Punch and it is the first film that Tarantino has adapted from a previous work, and stars Pam Grier in the title role. The film pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly the films Coffy and Foxy Brown, the films supporting cast includes Robert Forster, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda, and Michael Keaton. It was Tarantinos third film following Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Grier and Forster were both veteran actors but neither had performed a leading role in many years. Jackie Brown revitalized both actors careers, the film garnered Forster an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award nominations for Jackson and Grier. Jackie Brown is an attendant for a small Mexican airline. Ordell learns that another of his couriers, Beaumont Livingston, has been arrested, assuming that Livingston will become an informant in order to avoid jail time, Ordell arranges for bail with bondsman Max Cherry, then coaxes Livingston into a car trunk and murders him. Initially refusing to cut a deal, she is sent to jail which alerts Ordell that she also be a threat to inform. Having received payment from Ordell, Max picks up Jackie from the jail, Ordell arrives at Jackies house intending to murder her but she surprises him by pulling a gun surreptitiously taken from the glove compartment of Maxs car. Jackie negotiates a deal with Ordell to pretend to help the authorities while smuggling in $550,000 of Ordells money, enough to allow him to retire. To carry out this plan, Ordell is counting on Melanie Ralston, an unambitious, stoned surfer girl with whom he lives, and Louis Gara, a friend and former cellmate. Unaware of Jackie and Ordells plan to smuggle in $550,000, Nicolette, unbeknownst to all, Jackie plans to double-cross everyone and keep $500,000 for herself. She recruits Max to assist with her plan and offers him a cut, in the Del Amo Mall on the day of the transfer, Jackie enters a dressing room to try on a new suit. Instead, the bag she gives Melanie contains only $50,000, Jackie then feigns despair as she calls Nicolette and Dargus out from hiding, claiming Melanie took all the money and ran. In the parking lot, Melanie mocks Louis until he loses his temper, Ordell is livid when he discovers that most of the money is gone, and he realizes that Jackie is to blame. When Louis mentions that during the hand-off he saw Max Cherry in the stores department and thought nothing of it, Ordell kills Louis. Ordell turns his anger toward Max, who informs him that Jackie is frightened for her life and is waiting in Maxs office to hand over the money, a menacing Ordell holds Max at gunpoint as they enter the darkened office. Jackie suddenly yells that Ordell has a gun, and Nicolette jumps from a hiding place and shoots him dead

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Samuel L. Jackson
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Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American actor and film producer. With Jacksons permission, his likeness was used for the Ultimate version of the Marvel Comics character Nick Fury. He has also portrayed the character in the second and final episodes of the first season of the TV show Marvels Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D and he is married to LaTanya Richardson, with whom he has a daughter, Zoe. Samuel L. Jackson is ranked as the highest all-time box office star with over $4.9053 billion total box office gross, Jackson was born in Washington, D. C. the son of Elizabeth and Roy Henry Jackson. He grew up as a child in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His father lived away from the family in Kansas City, Missouri, Jackson only met his father twice during his life. Jackson was raised by his mother, who was a worker and later a supplies buyer for a mental institution. According to DNA tests, Jackson partially descends from the Benga people of Gabon, Jackson attended several segregated schools and graduated from Riverside High School in Chattanooga. Between the third and twelfth grades, he played the French horn, during childhood, he had a stuttering problem. While he eventually learned to pretend to be people who didnt stutter and use the curse word motherfucker as an affirmation word. Initially intent on pursuing a degree in biology, he attended Morehouse College in Atlanta. After joining a local acting group to earn points in a class, Jackson found an interest in acting. Before graduating in 1972, he co-founded the Just Us Theatre, after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Jackson attended the funeral in Atlanta as one of the ushers. Jackson then flew to Memphis to join an equal rights protest march, in a Parade interview Jackson revealed, I was angry about the assassination, but I wasnt shocked by it. I knew that change was going to something different – not sit-ins. In 1969, Jackson and several other students held members of the Morehouse College board of trustees hostage on the campus, demanding reform in the schools curriculum and governance. The college eventually agreed to change its policy, but Jackson was charged with and eventually convicted of unlawful confinement, Jackson was then suspended for two years for his criminal record and his actions. He would later return to the college to earn his Bachelor of Arts in Drama in 1972, while he was suspended, Jackson was employed as a social worker in Los Angeles

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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing
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The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years,1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also nominated for the Film Editing Oscar. Only the principal, above the line editor as listed in the credits are named on the award, additional editors, supervising editors. The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the members of the Editing Branch of the Academy. The members may vote for up to five of the films in the order of their preference. The Academy Award itself is selected from the films by a subsequent ballot of all active. This award was first given for films released in 1934, the name of this award is occasionally changed, in 2008, it was listed as the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing. Michael Kahn won for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindlers List, thelma Schoonmaker won for Raging Bull, The Aviator, and The Departed. To date, two film directors have won this award, James Cameron and Alfonso Cuarón for the films Titanic and Gravity, also, nominated editors Robert Wise, Francis D. West Side Story, The Sound of Music, The Sand Pebbles and The Andromeda Strain for Wise, Crazylegs for Lyon and Bound for Glory, superlatives taken from a document published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. These listings are based on the Awards Database maintained by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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Karen Sisco
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Karen Sisco is an American crime drama television series starring Carla Gugino in the title role. The series was created by novelist Elmore Leonard, based on a character who had appeared in several of his works, as well as one film adaptation. The series debuted on October 1,2003 on ABC, and was canceled after seven episodes. As a U. S. Deputy Marshal, based on Miami, Floridas Gold Coast, Karen must deal with the underbelly of South Beach nightlife and she also struggles to win the respect of her fellow officers. Karen occasionally gets advice from her father, a retired Miami police officer turned private investigator, who is Karen’s confidant, counselor, the show faced stiff competition from NBCs Law & Order. TV Guide included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were Canceled Too Soon, jason Smilovic and Peter Lefcourt were co-executive producers and writers. Karen Sisco was canceled before airing all of the finished episodes, the last three were first broadcast when the series was re-aired on the USA Network. Gugino appeared as the character in the second episode of the third season of Justified. There, she had become an Assistant Director in the Marshals Service, had been married and divorced

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U.S. Marshal
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The United States Marshals Service is a federal law enforcement agency within the U. S. Department of Justice. It is the oldest American federal law enforcement agency, which was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 during the presidency of George Washington, the Marshals Service is attached to the Judicial branch of government, and is the enforcement arm of the federal courts. It is the agency for fugitive operations, responsible for prisoner transport, the protection of officers of the court. The Marshals Service operates the Witness Protection Program, and serves federal level arrest warrants, the office of United States Marshal was created by the First Congress. President George Washington signed the Judiciary Act into law on September 24,1789, the Act provided that the United States Marshals primary function was to execute all lawful warrants issued to him under the authority of the United States. The critical Supreme Court decision, affirming the authority of the federal marshals, was made in In re Neagle 135 U. S.1. For over 100 years marshals were patronage jobs, typically controlled by the district judge and they were paid primarily by fees until a salary system was set up in 1896. Many of the first US Marshals had already proven themselves in service during the American Revolution. From the nations earliest days, marshals were permitted to recruit special deputies as local hires, Marshals were also authorized to swear in a posse to assist with manhunts, and other duties, ad hoc. Marshals were given authority to support the federal courts within their judicial districts. Federal marshals were by far the most important government officials in territorial jurisdictions, local law enforcement officials were often called marshals so there is often an ambiguity whether someone was a federal or a local official. Federal marshals are most famous for their law enforcement work, the largest part of the business was paper work—serving writs, and other process issued by the courts, made all the arrests, and handled all federal prisoners. They also disbursed funds as ordered by the courts, Marshals paid the fees and expenses of the court clerks, U. S. Attorneys, jurors, and witnesses. They rented the courtrooms and jail space, and hired the bailiffs, criers and they made sure the prisoners were present, the jurors were available, and that the witnesses were on time. The marshals thus provided local representation for the government within their districts. They took the census every decade through 1870. During the settlement of the American Frontier, marshals served as the source of day-to-day law enforcement in areas that had no local government of their own. U. S. Marshals were instrumental in keeping law and order in the Old West era, Bill Tilghman, Heck Thomas, and Chris Madsen formed a legendary law enforcement trio known as The Three Guardsmen when they worked together policing the vast, lawless Oklahoma and Indian Territories

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Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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Bloomfield Hills is a city located in Metro Detroits northern suburbs in Oakland County in the U. S. state of Michigan,20.2 miles northwest of downtown Detroit. The city is almost completely surrounded by Bloomfield Township, as of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,869. What is now Bloomfield Hills was an area until the turn of the 20th century when wealthy Detroit residents bought up the land. The settlement became a village in 1927, and in 1932 residents voted to become a city to avoid being incorporated into growing Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills is the location of the National Historic Landmark Cranbrook Educational Community and other historic sites listed on the national register of historic places. In popular culture, Bloomfield Hills was the setting for the 2005 film The Upside of Anger. In the 2002 film 8 Mile, Eminem mentions Cranbrook Kingswood while making fun of Doc because he attended Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills is the hometown of the comic book character, Trance. Some scenes in Out of Sight with Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney were filmed at a residence in Bloomfield Hills. Jimmy Hoffa was last seen at the former Machus Red Fox restaurant in adjacent Bloomfield Township, the novel Gilda Joyce, The Ladies of the Lake is set in a private school in Bloomfield. The Congregational Church of Birmingham United Church of Christ was founded in Birmingham, St. Hugo of the Hills Roman Catholic Church was funded by Theodore F. MacManus and his wife in memory of their deceased children, Hugo and Hubert. St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic Church was built from 1931–1936, with approval from Bishop Michael J. Gallagher, other churches include St. Acme Group, consisting of Acme Mills, Great Lakes Filters, and Fairway Products, is headquartered in Bloomfield Hills. Other companies headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, MI include Taubman Centers, larson Realty Group, Princeton Enterprises, PulteGroup, Inc. TIP Capital, Bloomfield Hills Bancorp, Reverie, BlackEagle Partners, alidade Capital, and O2 Investment Partners.04 square miles, of which 4.96 square miles is land and 0.08 square miles is water. As of the 2005–2009 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, there were 3,774 people,1,570 households, the population density was 796.4 per square mile. There were 1,628 housing units at a density of 329.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 89. 1% White,5. 4% Asian,4. 3% Black,0. 8% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 2% of the population. As of the census of 2010, there were 3,869 people,1,489 households, the population density was 780.0 inhabitants per square mile. There were 1,659 housing units at a density of 334.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 87. 3% White,4. 1% African American,0. 1% Native American,6. 7% Asian,0. 3% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 5% of the population

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Detroit
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Detroit is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state, the municipality of Detroit had a 2015 estimated population of 677,116, making it the 21st-most populous city in the United States. Roughly one-half of Michigans population lives in Metro Detroit alone, the Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada–U. S. Border, has a population of about 5.7 million. Detroit is a port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States, the City of Detroit anchors the second-largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago, and the thirteenth-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and various bridges, Detroit was founded on July 24,1701 by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region, with expansion of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, the Detroit area emerged as a significant metropolitan region within the United States. The city became the fourth-largest in the country for a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, suburban expansion continued with construction of a regional freeway system. A great portion of Detroits public transport was abandoned in favour of becoming a city in the post-war period. Due to industrial restructuring and loss of jobs in the auto industry, between 2000 and 2010 the citys population fell by 25 percent, changing its ranking from the nations 10th-largest city to 18th. In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and this resulted from suburbanization, corruption, industrial restructuring and the decline of Detroits auto industry. In 2013, the state of Michigan declared an emergency for the city. Detroit has experienced urban decay as its population and jobs have shifted to its suburbs or elsewhere, conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces since the 2000s and allowed several large-scale revitalisations. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, paleo-Indian people inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 11,000 years ago. In the 17th century, the region was inhabited by Huron, Odawa, Potawatomi, for the next hundred years, virtually no British, colonist, or French action was contemplated without consultation with, or consideration of the Iroquois likely response. When the French and Indian War evicted the Kingdom of France from Canada, the 1798 raids and resultant 1799 decisive Sullivan Expedition reopened the Ohio Country to westward emigration, which began almost immediately, and by 1800 white settlers were pouring westwards. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400, by 1778, its population was up to 2,144 and it was the third-largest city in the Province of Quebec

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Isaiah Washington
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Isaiah Washington IV is an American actor. A veteran of several Spike Lee films, Washington is best known for his role as Dr. Preston Burke on the ABC medical drama Greys Anatomy from 2005 until 2007, Washington currently plays Thelonius Jaha on The CWs The 100. Washington was born in Houston, Texas where his parents were residents in the Houston Heights community and his parents moved to Missouri City, Texas around 1980, where he was one of the first graduates from Willowridge High School, Houston, in 1981. Washington revealed in an interview with Star Jones that his father, after whom he was named, was murdered when he was 13 years old, Washington went on to serve in the United States Air Force and attended Howard University. In 2005, Washington originated the role of gifted cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Preston Burke on the ABC medical drama Greys Anatomy and his portrayal earned him two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award. He was paired onscreen with Sandra Oh, who plays intern Dr. Cristina Yang, Washington had originally auditioned for the role of Dr. Derek Shepherd, which ultimately went to Patrick Dempsey. Burke had originally described as a nebbishy, stout forty-something man. For his portrayal of Dr. Burke, Isaiah was honored by TV Guide as one of TVs Sexiest Men in June 2006, prior to the TV Guide honor, Isaiah was named as one of Peoples 50 Beautiful People in May 2006. On March 6,2014, ABC announced that Washington would be returning to the show in a guest appearance as Burke and he returned in season 10, which served as part of a farewell storyline for Sandra Ohs character, Dr. Cristina Yang. The characters had previously engaged to be married. In the shows season, Washington became a central figure in a widely reported backstage controversy. In October 2006, rumors surfaced that Washington had insulted co-star T. R. Knight with a homophobic slur, shortly after the details of the argument became public, Knight publicly disclosed that he was gay. The situation seemed somewhat resolved when Washington issued a statement, apologizing for his use of words during the recent incident on-set. The controversy later resurfaced when the cast appeared at the Golden Globes in January 2007, while being interviewed on the red carpet prior to the awards, Washington joked, I love gay. After the show won Best Drama, Washington, in response to queries as to any conflicts backstage, said, No. However, in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, after being rebuked by his studio, Touchstone Television, Washington issued a statement apologizing at length for using the epithet in an argument with Patrick Dempsey. However, on June 7,2007, ABC announced it had decided not to renew Washingtons contract, Im mad as hell and Im not going to take it anymore, Washington said in a statement released by his publicist, borrowing the famous line from Network. In another report, Washington stated he was planning to spend the summer pursuing charity work in Sierra Leone, work on an independent film, Washington, in late June 2007, began asserting that racism within the media was a factor in his firing from the series

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Viola Davis
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Viola Davis is an American actress and producer. She is the black woman to be nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one, and is the only black actress or actor to win the Triple Crown of Acting. In 2012, she was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. After graduating from the Juilliard School in 1993, Davis began her career on stage, in 2001, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Tonya in the original production of August Wilsons King Hedley II. Davis film breakthrough came in 2008 when her role in the drama Doubt earned her several nominations, including the Golden Globe, SAG. Greater success came to Davis in the 2010s and she won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Rose Maxson in the revival of August Wilsons play Fences. For her lead role as 1960s housemaid Aibeleen Clark in the comedy-drama The Help, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress among others and her portrayal also won her two SAG Awards in 2015 and 2016. Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, are the founders of the production company JuVee Productions, Davis has starred in their productions Lila & Eve and Custody. Davis was born in St. Matthews, South Carolina, at her grandparents house on the Singleton Plantation and she is the daughter of Mary Alice and Dan Davis, and is the second youngest of six children. Her father was a trainer and her mother was a maid. Her mother was also an activist during the Civil Rights Movement, at the age of two, Davis was taken to jail with her mother after she was arrested during a civil rights protest. Two months after she was born, her moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island, with Davis. She has described herself as having lived in poverty and dysfunction during her childhood. Davis is the cousin of actor Mike Colter, who is known for portraying the Marvel Comics character Luke Cage. Davis attended Central Falls High School, the alma mater to which she credits her love of stage acting with her involvement in the arts. As a teen, she was involved in the federal TRIO Upward Bound, when enrolled at the Young Peoples School for the Performing Arts in West Warwick, Rhode Island, Davis talent was recognized by a director at the program, Bernard Masterson. Following graduation from school, Davis studied at Rhode Island College, majoring in theater. She was awarded a doctorate in Fine Arts from the college in 2002

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The Detroit News
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The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U. S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival Detroit Free Presss building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on February 1,1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21,1922, and on November 7,1960, it bought and closed the faltering Detroit Times. However, it retained the Times building, which it used as a plant until 1967, when a new facility opened in Sterling Heights. The street in downtown Detroit where the Times building once stood is still called Times Square, the Evening News Association, owner of The News, merged with Gannett in 1985. The News claims to have been the first newspaper in the world to operate a station, station 8MK. In 1947, it established Michigans first television station, WWJ-TV, in 1989, the paper entered into a 100-year joint operating agreement with the rival Free Press, combining business operations while keeping separate editorial staffs. The combined company is called the Detroit Media Partnership, the Free Press moved into The News building in 1998 and until May 7,2006, the two published a single joint weekend edition. Today The News, which has won three Pulitzer Prizes, is published Monday–Saturday, and has a page in the Sunday Free Press. The Detroit News was founded by James E. Scripps, who, in turn, was the older half-brother, the papers eventual success, however, is largely credited to Scripps son-in-law, George Gough Booth, who came aboard at the request of his wifes father. Booth went on to construct Michigans largest newspaper empire, founding the independent Booth Newspapers chain with his two brothers, the Detroit News building was erected in 1917. It was designed by architect Albert Kahn, who included a concrete building with large street level arches to admit light. The arches along the east and south side of the building were bricked-in for protection after the 12th Street Riot in 1967, the bricked-in arches on the east and south ends of the building were reopened during renovations required when the Free Press relocated its offices there 20 years later. In 1931, The Detroit News made history when it bought a three place Pitcairn PCA-2 auto-gyro as an aircraft which could take off and land in restricted places. It was the ancestor of todays well known news helicopter, in 1935 a single Lockheed Model 9 Orion was purchased and modified by Lockheed as a news camera plane for The Detroit News. To work in that role, a pod was built into the leading edge of the right wing about eight feet out from the fuselage. This pod had a dome on the front and a mounted camera. To aim the camera the pilot was provided with a primitive grid-like gun sight on his windshield

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United States Marshals Service
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The United States Marshals Service is a federal law enforcement agency within the U. S. Department of Justice. It is the oldest American federal law enforcement agency, which was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 during the presidency of George Washington, the Marshals Service is attached to the Judicial branch of government, and is the enforcement arm of the federal courts. It is the agency for fugitive operations, responsible for prisoner transport, the protection of officers of the court. The Marshals Service operates the Witness Protection Program, and serves federal level arrest warrants, the office of United States Marshal was created by the First Congress. President George Washington signed the Judiciary Act into law on September 24,1789, the Act provided that the United States Marshals primary function was to execute all lawful warrants issued to him under the authority of the United States. The critical Supreme Court decision, affirming the authority of the federal marshals, was made in In re Neagle 135 U. S.1. For over 100 years marshals were patronage jobs, typically controlled by the district judge and they were paid primarily by fees until a salary system was set up in 1896. Many of the first US Marshals had already proven themselves in service during the American Revolution. From the nations earliest days, marshals were permitted to recruit special deputies as local hires, Marshals were also authorized to swear in a posse to assist with manhunts, and other duties, ad hoc. Marshals were given authority to support the federal courts within their judicial districts. Federal marshals were by far the most important government officials in territorial jurisdictions, local law enforcement officials were often called marshals so there is often an ambiguity whether someone was a federal or a local official. Federal marshals are most famous for their law enforcement work, the largest part of the business was paper work—serving writs, and other process issued by the courts, made all the arrests, and handled all federal prisoners. They also disbursed funds as ordered by the courts, Marshals paid the fees and expenses of the court clerks, U. S. Attorneys, jurors, and witnesses. They rented the courtrooms and jail space, and hired the bailiffs, criers and they made sure the prisoners were present, the jurors were available, and that the witnesses were on time. The marshals thus provided local representation for the government within their districts. They took the census every decade through 1870. During the settlement of the American Frontier, marshals served as the source of day-to-day law enforcement in areas that had no local government of their own. U. S. Marshals were instrumental in keeping law and order in the Old West era, Bill Tilghman, Heck Thomas, and Chris Madsen formed a legendary law enforcement trio known as The Three Guardsmen when they worked together policing the vast, lawless Oklahoma and Indian Territories

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Get Shorty (film)
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Get Shorty is a 1995 American crime thriller comedy film based on Elmore Leonards novel of the same name. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, and Danny DeVito, a sequel, titled Be Cool, was released in 2005. Chili Palmer, a loan shark based in Miami, clashes with another mobster and they have several confrontations, one of which leaves Barboni with a broken nose. But after Palmers boss, Momo, dies of an attack, he finds himself working for Barboni. Devoe was believed to have killed in a fatal commercial airliner crash, but had actually gotten off the plane. After the plane crash, Devoes wife identified his personal effects, Chili visits her and discovers Leo is still alive, partying in Las Vegas. While in Vegas, Palmer picks up a job from a manager to collect a debt from B-movie producer Harry Zimm. Palmer goes to Los Angeles and locates Zimm at the home of actress Karen Flores, Zimm agrees to pay the money he owes in 90 days. Film fan Palmer then pitches an idea, a thinly veiled story of his own life, Zimm is interested, but he has financial problems, He owes $200,000 to drug dealer Bo Catlett, who also wants to be in the movie business. Palmer says he will help Zimm take care of it, Palmer tracks down Devoe and collects the $300,000 in insurance money. He hides it in an airport locker, Palmer returns to Karens house, where he asks Karen on a date. Karen is the ex-wife of actor Martin Weir, which gives Palmer the idea that Weir should star in his movie and he and Karen go to Weirs home to pitch the story idea, Chili giving the actor tips on how to act like a loan shark. Catlett comes to Zimms office for a report about the film he is supposedly financing. Waiting for him there instead is Palmer, who tells Catlett that Zimm has a different project he needs to finish first, Catlett and his sidekick Ronnie proceed to threaten Zimm, saying they want their money back and to get rid of Palmer or else. Zimm makes a call to Ray Barboni in Miami, telling him Chili has recovered the money from Leo Devoe, Barboni promptly flies to Los Angeles, confronts Zimm in his office, and beats him mercilessly when Zimm does not reveal the location of Chili and the money. Ronnie walks in and Ray shoots him, then puts the gun in Zimms hand, doris, Zimms girlfriend, whose late husband wrote Mr. Lovejoy, calls Karen and tells her that Zimm is in the hospital. At another restaurant, Zimm claims he doesnt need Chilis money anymore, Catletts bodyguard, Bear, a movie stuntman on the side, is thrown down a flight of stairs by Chili. Desperate for money, Catlett kidnaps Karen and demands the money that Chili has gotten back from Devoe, but after Chili gives him the money, Catlett reneges on their deal

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Get Shorty
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Get Shorty is a 1990 novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard. In 1995, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name, the book s story centers on Ernest Chili Palmer, a small-time shylock based in Miami. After a run-in with mobster Ray Bones Barbone over a coat, Chili is sent after Leo Devoe. Leo had been aboard a plane whose flight was delayed, prompting him to disembark, Leo misses the planes takeoff, and when it crashes, his widow receives a check for $300,000, money which Leo takes to Las Vegas. After relieving Leo of the money in Vegas, Chili finds an interesting assignment, the casino is looking to collect from Harry Zimm. Chili, himself interested in the movie business, heads for L. A. to make Harry pay. Chili lets his love of movies overshadow his collection job and he sneaks into the house of actress Karen Flores in the middle of the night, startling both Harry and Karen, who are together in bed. After he warns Harry to pay his Las Vegas markers, he explains that he has an idea for a movie, Harry is immediately taken in by Chilis charm and his movie premise, whereas Karen is still skeptical. Chili recounts Leos story to Harry in the person, as if it were a work of fiction. Karen is on to him, pointing out that the story clearly isnt fictional because she saw the crash in the news. The next morning, Harry asks for Chilis help in dealing with a script he wants to buy, Harry tells him this script, Mr. Lovejoy, could be Academy Award worthy material. Itll be my Driving Miss Daisy, Harry assures Chili, in a meeting with Bo and his sidekick Ronnie Wingate, Harry and Chili tell them that, while their investment in Freaks is sound, they are making another movie first. Bo tells them to move the money into this new picture, Harry says he cannot, meanwhile, Bo is involved in a Mexican drug deal which doesnt go through. He has left the payment in a locker at the L. A. airport, Bo later meets Yayo at the limo garage, and after Yayo threatens to tell the DEA who Bo is, Bo shoots him. Bo soon offers the money to Harry as an investment. Chili senses something wrong, signs out a locker as a test. Chili and Karen are meanwhile seeking the interests of Martin Weir, the loose ends are tied up when Ray comes to Los Angeles looking for the money Chili collected from Leo, only to find the key to the locker from the failed drug deal in one of Chilis pockets. Thinking Chili has stashed his cash in a locker, he goes to the airport and is busted by drug officials, in a final showdown with Bo, Bo is double-crossed by his partner, Bear

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Sandra Bullock
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Sandra Annette Bullock is a German-American actress, producer, and philanthropist. Her breakthrough role was in the film Demolition Man and she subsequently starred in several successful films including Speed, While You Were Sleeping, The Net, A Time to Kill, Hope Floats, and Practical Magic. Bullock achieved further success in the decades in Miss Congeniality, Two Weeks Notice, Crash, The Proposal. Bullocks greatest commercial success is the comedy film Minions, which grossed over US$1 billion at the box office. In 2007, she was one of Hollywoods highest-paid actresses and she was also named Most Beautiful Woman by People magazine in 2015. In addition to her career, Bullock is the founder of the production company Fortis Films. She has produced some of the films in which she starred, including Two Weeks Notice, Miss Congeniality 2, Armed and Fabulous and she was an executive producer of the ABC sitcom, George Lopez, and made several appearances during its run. Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia and her father, John W. Bullock, was a U. S. Army employee and part-time voice coach, her mother, Helga Mathilde Meyer, was an opera singer and voice teacher. Helga was German, while John is from Birmingham, Alabama and has English, French, German, Bullocks maternal grandfather was a German rocket scientist from Nuremberg. John, who was in charge of the U. S. Armys Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met Helga. They married in Germany and moved to Arlington, where John worked with the Army Materiel Command before becoming a contractor for The Pentagon, Bullock has a younger sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, who went on to serve as vice president of Bullocks production company Fortis Films. Until the age of 18, Bullock held American-German dual citizenship and she then held only American citizenship until 2009, when she reapplied for German citizenship. Bullock was raised in Germany for 12 years, and grew up speaking German and she attended the humanistic Waldorf School in Nuremberg. As a child, while her mother went on European opera tours, Bullock usually stayed with her aunt Christl and cousin Susanne, Bullock studied ballet and vocal arts as a child and frequently accompanied her mother, taking small parts in her opera productions. She sang in the childrens choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. Bullock has a scar above her eye, caused by falling into a creek when she was a child. She attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was a cheerleader, after graduating in 1982, she attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where she received a BFA in Drama in 1987. While at ECU, she performed in theater productions, including Peter Pan